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Thirty-five years after Rachel Carson's Silent Spring warned of the impact of chemicals on the environment, Steingraber offers us an urgent critique of current thinking on cancer and its causes, bringing us the alarming message that we have wilfully ignored the evidence and are still poisoning our environment. Throughout her study of truly shocking scientific research she weaves two stories - of Rachel Carson and her battle to be heard and of her own moving story of cancer of the bladder, which she traces back to agricultural and industrial contamination. The connection between our bodies and the ecological world in which we eat, drink, breathe and work have rarely been so eloquently and passionately recorded.
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An inspiration, an alarm, an illustrated guide to your worst nightmare ... excellent ... accessible (LITERARY REVIEW )
Read Steingraber and you won't be able to dismiss her suspicions about the role of chemical contaminants in our environment ... a book long overdue (GWYNNE LYONS, WWF )
Her writing is clear and concise ... the author's well-documented account should help to rectify this disturbing and dangerous situation (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY )
Eloquent and passionate. (DAILY MAIL )
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Read Steingraber and you won't be able to dismiss her suspicions about the role of chemical contaminants in our environment ... a book long overdue (GWYNNE LYONS, WWF )
Her writing is clear and concise ... the author's well-documented account should help to rectify this disturbing and dangerous situation (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY )
Eloquent and passionate. (DAILY MAIL )
A powerfully eloquent clarion call to address the most important health and human rights issue of our time.
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- PublisherVirago Press Ltd
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1860494692
- ISBN 13 9781860494697
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages384
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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 357 pages. Thirty-five years after Rachel Carson's Silent Spr ing warned of the impact of chemicals on the environment, biologi st Sandra Steingraber offers a critique of current thinking on ca ncer and its causes. She asserts that society has wilfully ignore d the evidence and is still poisoning the environment. Throughout her study she weaves two stories - of Rachel Carson and her batt le to be heard and of her own cancer of the bladder, which she tr aces back to agricultural and industrial contamination. She argue s for the basic connection between our bodies and the ecological world in which we eat, drink, breathe and work. Seller Inventory # 286n
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Book Description Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st British. A clarion call to address the most important health and human rights issue of our time. The author offers us an urgent critique of current thinking on cancer and its causes. She brings the alarming yet hopeful message that a meaningful programme of cancer prevention depends on ending the reckless poisoning of our environment and ourselves. In a gripping personal narrative she weaves together the stories of local communities in the States and the UK, how a friend dying of cancer turned Steingraber's attention to England, of Rachel Carson and her battle to be heard and of her own moving story of bladder cancer, a disease with intimate connections with enviornmental contamination. The connection between our bodies and the ecological world in which we eat, drink, breathe and work has rarely been so eloquently and passionately recorded. Seller Inventory # 015270
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. xx, 357 pages, index. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The book examines the connection between 'our bodies and the ecological world in which we eat, drink, breathe and work offering a critique of current thnking on cancer and its causes'. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 019699
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